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Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson stumble in this mushy, overlong story of a woman leaving voicemails for her dead sister
Thereâs a fine line between romantic comedy and creepy thriller, and while redefining the genreâs lovelorn leads as often incredibly oddball stalkers is nothing new (see the Sleepless in Seattle trailer recut as a horror movie 20 years ago), an online deluge of memes and thinkpieces have elevated post-movie bar jokes to commonly accepted theory. Some film-makers have slowly tried to catch up and capitalise â last yearâs dark comedy I Love You Forever showed how epic acts of romance can be rooted in manipulation while a great deal of what makes current box office record-breaker Obsession so effective is its horror movie perversion of the day-to-day realities of all-consuming true love.
'Voicemails For Isabelle' Review: Zoey Deutch And Nick Robinson romcom
Netflix continues in the rom-com business, sometimes getting it right, sometimes getting it wrong.
Despite its No. 1 stature on the streamer’s viewing charts for the past two weeks, I think the higher-profile Jennifer Lopez-Brett Goldstein “romantic” comedy Office Romance failed largely not just because of its tonally off-balance crudeness mixed with a desire to be a traditional rom-com but simply because its two leads had little believable chemistry onscreen. It all seemed manufactured. The streamer got that one wrong.
On the other hand, right on its heels comes Voicemails for Isabelle, a rom-com baked in some of the most predictable tropes imaginable for the genre, yet one that rises above the familiar with the sheer delight of the chemistry between its two stars: the magnetic Zoey Deutch (Nouvelle Vague) and the ever-reliable Nick Robinson (Love, Simon). Here, Netflix gets it right.
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How ‘Voicemails for Isabelle’ Filmmaker Leah McKendrick Went Big Without Losing Her Voice
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“I’m here to make movies, not write scripts,” filmmaker Leah McKendrick told IndieWire.
That’s the kind of hard-earned wisdom that sounds obvious until you seriously consider the person and career behind it. For the writer/director of Netflix‘s newest rom-com, “Voicemails for Isabelle,” streaming on Friday, June 19, arriving at that conclusion took eight years, a global pandemic, multiple industry strikes, countless rewrites, and the long, often painful process of shepherding an intensely personal screenplay into the mainstream.
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